Where Are The Wise Men?

One of my tasks this week was laying out some HTML pages. Some were complex, but YUI Grids saved the day! They actually made my task pretty easy.

One of the layouts was a 2×2 grid between a header and footer. This took me some doing but, once I figured it out, it [...]

When I tell people that I have eclectic taste in music, they seem to nod their head and say, “Yes, I do too”.  Yet when they look at my music collection they are amazed by what’s there.To give you a taste, I kept track of the songs from the last hour or so from shuffle [...]

The Adoption of Lucas John Beaumont is finally complete.  I think his mom would have put more “!!” in the title if she could have.  Welcome to the family, Lucas.  When you get a bit older then perhaps you can go fishing and geocaching with Uncle Mike and Cousin Leah.  How’s that sound?  Oh, you [...]

My lovely wife is always trolling Craigslist, looking to put me to work doing odd jobs.  My latest odd job is a Java tutor.I never took a formal Java class. I bought a book, trolled the web, and was given a project.  The good news is that I don’t have a lot of cruft to [...]

Annette has finally updated her blog so I can finally make my announcement here. It’s exciting to have a nephew in town and Leah is very excited to have a cousin nearby.

Nothing is final yet, but the prospects of the adoption getting finalized are very good. Keep your prayers going on this.

Here I am, blogging on my lunch break, trying to figure out how to filter all the happenings into one, sufficient post.  I can’t do it.  Some things I can’t talk about yet.  So, instead, I will share a fish story.While my wife was sick with a horrid cold, I went fishing.  It wasn’t planned [...]

Today is my birthday and, yet, it seems like it’s been my birthday for about five days yet.

It all started on Friday night when Jeremy and Kate joined Gina and I at Hiro for some sushi and Chinese. I haven’t had sushi for a long time, and we hadn’t hung out with the Sydik’s [...]

I’ve been using Python for a long time but I’m not sure that I’ve ever used the reduce.  A lot of people use it badly and I’ve never really “gotten” it.  But the other day I was tackling a problem and a light bulb went off in my head — “Isn’t this what reduceis for?”The [...]

I spent my whole day essentially working on one unit test.  Yes, just one unit test. But let me explain.This part of the app just does something very simple — serializes the results of a database query into XML.  Of course, it’s not “simple” but we have tools to make this simple.  You take some [...]

We had another Faith and Work lunch today.  The topic was “Are We Working Too Much?”  We were given an article that refuted the claim that we work too much and gave some good evidence to the contrary.  But the article was written in 1993 and work has changed a lot since then — we [...]